When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. Denis Diderot
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. Hippocrates
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. Theodor Adorno
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. Paul Cezanne
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land. Morihei Ueshiba
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema. Quentin Tarantino
There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world. Steve Martin
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. Steve Martin
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it. Steve Martin
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. Marshall McLuhan
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. Simone Weil
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. Ani DiFranco
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art. Mason Cooley
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. Claude Debussy
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. Arthur Conan Doyle
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. Jean Cocteau
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. Patti Smith
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. Alvar Aalto